(January 20, 2024 at 2:11 pm)popeyespappy Wrote:(January 19, 2024 at 1:39 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Education is teaching a person how to think. Indoctrination has a specific goal in what it wants a person to think/believe.
Indoctrination has it's place in education. Math, geography, spelling are a few examples.
I checked the definition on Merriam Webster and was a little surprised.
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: to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle
2
: to instruct especially in fundamentals or rudiments : TEACH
Indoctrinate means "brainwash" to many people, but its meaning isn't always so negative. When the verb first appeared in English in the 17th century, it simply meant "to teach"—a meaning linked closely to its source, the Latin verb docēre, which also means "to teach." (Other offspring of docēre include docile, doctor, document, and, of course, doctrine). By the 19th century, indoctrinate was being used in the sense of teaching someone to fully accept only the ideas, opinions, and beliefs of a particular group.
I have always used it in the first sense, which is close to "brainwash." But in the second sense it's certainly necessary for education. Memorizing one's multiplication tables is good indoctrination.
